LiveScience.com - The
human body may be
equipped with a separate
sensory system aside from
the nerves that gives us
the ability to touch and
feel, according to a new
study.
AFP - Members of the
Nobel-winning panel of
climate scientists rose
on Tuesday to defend
colleagues that they said
had been "targeted" for
email hacking to sway the
outcome of the UN global
warming talks.
SPACE.com - The biggest
black holes in the
universe are also the
most
perplexing. Scientists
have long been confused
about just how the
earliest,
most massive black holes
formed, but new evidence
now suggests they could
have originated
inside giant co...
AFP - Ignored,
marginalised or despised
in many countries,
wastepickers from Asia,
Latin America and Africa
have come together in
Copenhagen to lobby for
recognition as unsung
heroes in the fight
against climate change.
LiveScience.com - Off the
coast of California, the
bat ray Myliobatis
californica
glides over the seafloor
looking for buried clams
to eat. Well,
"looking" isn't the right
word. The ray's eyes,
after all, are on top
of its head, not great
for looking ...
AFP - Energy giant Exxon
Mobil Tuesday approved a
15 billion US dollar
liquefied natural gas
(LNG) project in Papua
New Guinea, potentially
the largest ever such
deal for the impoverished
Pacific country.
AFP - An unofficial
delegation of Tibetans,
the first to attend UN
climate talks, said
Tuesday that global
warming and China's
environmental policies
threatened Himalayan
glaciers providing water
to more than a billion
Asians.
AFP - An unofficial
delegation of Tibetans,
the first to attend UN
climate talks, said
Tuesday that global
warming and China's
environmental policies
threatened Himalayan
glaciers providing water
to more than a billion
Asians.
AFP - India's environment
minister faced criticism
in parliament on Monday
and dissent from
negotiators after his
offer to reduce the
country's carbon
footprint ahead of the
Copenhagen climate change
talks.
AP - A big meeting in
Copenhagen. A
cap-and-trade bill in
Congress. And now, a
determination by the
Environmental Protection
Agency that global
warming pollution is a
threat to public health
— a move that
clears the way for the
first-ever feder...